Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch artwork • painting • for sale Homewards after the rain
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch
Den Haag 1824-1903
1824-1903
Homewards after the rain
oil on canvas laid down on panel 32.9 x 44.1 cm, signed l.r.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 25,000
Provenance: kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam; part. bezit Canada.
Literature: Harry Otten e.a., 'Hollandse wolkenluchten - een onvergelijkbaar schouwspel', Utrecht/Antwerpen 2009, afb. in kleur pag. 156; tent.cat. Kortenhoef, Kunst aan de Dijk, 'In het spoor van Gabriel', 2012, pag. 38 en afb. in kleur pag. 17; vgl.: Edwin Jacobs e.a., 'J.H. Weissenbruch (1824-1903)', Zwolle 1999, afb. pag. 182.
Exhibited: Tsinandali, Georgië, Alexander Chavchavadze House-Museum, ‘Once Upon a time in Holland. The young Piet Mondrian and the Masters who inspired him’, 1 mei-30 juni 2011; Kortenhoef, Kunst aan de Dijk, 'In het spoor van Gabriel', 2-24 juni 2012.
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch is considered one of the most gifted painters of the Hague School. He chiefly painted landscapes on the outskirts of The Hague and the polder land around Boskoop and Gouda. His great strength lay in portraying typical Dutch light – sometimes bright, sometimes diffuse and hazy. He was also fascinated by skies. ‘Sky and light are the great sorcerers', he once said. ‘Both grey rainy skies as well as clear cloudy skies on a summer’s day.' 'Painters can never look too much at skies.’ Weissenbruch gave painting lessons to Victor Bauffe and Theophile de Bock.
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